Hi, this is Andrea Martin and you are listening to Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast.

Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey, this is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast with my co-hosts Frank Santopodre.

And we're once again recording at Nutmeg with our engineer Frank Verderosa.

Our guest this week is a producer, author, actor, Emmy winning writer and Oscar nominated director.

He started out his performing career as a member of the San Francisco based comedy troupe, The Committee,

and went on to write and perform in popular variety shows and situation comedies, such as The Glenn Campbell Good Time Hour,

The Flip Wilson Special, The George Burns Comedy Week, The King Berry Wow Show, Chico and the Man,

Old and the Family, The Odd Couple, The Bob New Hodgeau, and of course The Groundbreaking and Rulebreaking,

Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, for which he was awarded an Emmy for outstanding achievement in comedy.

He also wrote the feature films, Dr. Detroit and The Richard Prior Vehicle, which weighs up,

directed The Ringo Star Comedy, Caveman and Oscar nominated short, The Absent Minded Wader,

and appeared in movies, Mesh, The Long Goodbye, Johnny Dangerously and Clueless,

and of course in a pair of iconic films that he also happened to write.

Steve Martin's The Jerk and The Little Picture Called Jaws.

He's also the screenwriter of the sequels, Jaws 2 and Jaws 3, and the author of a best-selling book, The Jaws Log,

An indispensable production guide, and behind the scenes look at the making of one of Hollywood's greatest adventure films.

Please welcome to the show A Man of Many Talents, and the artist formerly known as Iron Balls.

Carl Gottlieb.

Yes, yes, yes.

It's always interesting to put on your resume the jerk part of Iron Balls McGinty.

Is it on the resume as Iron Balls McGinty?

If I still had a resume, it's on the IMD page.

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